This is an online journal of our education journey. We like to read living books, do lapbooks, projects, and unit studies. We go on educational trips and get together with other families for different clubs.

Friday, 13 January 2017

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone!

This week at Unit Study Roundup, our theme is Saint Patrick's Day. My contribution to the Unit Study Roundup for this theme is a word search.

What is Saint Patrick's Day? Saint Patrick's Day is the feast day of Saint Patrick who is the patron saint of Ireland.

He was born in Britain, kidnapped and taken to Ireland at the age of 16. He escaped and then returned and is credited with having taken Christianity to Ireland. It is celebrated on the anniversary of the day that everyone believes that he died, March 17, 461. The first ever Saint Patrick's Day parade was not in Ireland but was in America on March 17, 1762. It was Irish soldiers who were serving in the English military paraded through the streets of New York and this parade helped the Irish soldiers there to connect with their Irish roots and with other Irish soldiers serving in the army at the time.

Today at Tales of Education at Home, I am sharing a word search that I created with some words that have an Irish or Saint Patrick's Day theme.